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  1. AIDS: Rights, Risk and Reason

    Edited by Peter Aggleton, Peter Davies, Graham Hart

    Series: Social Aspects of AIDS

    Based on articles chosen from the sixth annual 'Social Aspects of AIDS' conference, this book focuses on up-to-date accounts of HIV/AIDS research and associated social/sexual issues....

    Published May 14th 1992 by Taylor & Francis

  2. Professions and Patriarchy

    By Anne Witz

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    This impressive and original study is one of the first books to combine mainstream sociology with feminism in exploring the subject of the professions and power.This is an important addition to the corpus of feminist scholarship... It provides fresh insights into the way in which male power has...

    Published January 8th 1992 by Routledge

  3. Women's Health Matters

    Edited by Dr Helen Roberts, Helen Roberts

    Women's Health Matters, like its sister volume Women's Health Counts, is an invaluable practical guide to doing feminist research on women's health. Written by experienced researchers and practitioners, these lively accounts of research work range from getting the research idea, through obtaining...

    Published December 4th 1991 by Routledge

  4. Growing Old in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Margot Jefferys

    Growing Old in the Twentieth Century investigates many aspects of the current debates raging regarding care and provision for the elderly and the very elderly. It will be invaluable to gerontologists, social policy makers, official and unofficial carers, and anyone involved in health care....

    Published December 4th 1991 by Routledge

  5. Structures of Control in Health Management

    By Rob Flynn

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    Using a variety of evidence the author documents the rise of general management, the application of new techniques to reduce medical costs and improve efficiency, and other methods to control use and evaluate clinical performance....

    Published November 6th 1991 by Routledge

  6. Infant and Child Nutrition Worldwide

    Issues and Perspectives

    By Frank Falkner

    This volume provides a contemporary and historical overview of infant nutrition in Europe, North America, and the Third World. It emphasizes the important role that good nutrition, appropriate health care, and a caring environment play in promoting healthy physical and social growth in children....

    Published October 1st 1991 by CRC Press

  7. Activities With Developmentally Disabled Elderly and Older Adults

    By M Jean Keller

    Learn how to effectively plan and deliver activities for the growing number of older people with developmental disabilities. Activities With Developmentally Disabled Elderly and Older Adults is an innovative new book that aims to stimulate interest and continued support for recreation program...

    Published August 8th 1991 by Routledge

  8. Preventing Coronary Heart Disease

    Prospects, Policies, and Politics

    By Michael Calnan

    Drawing on the disciplines of sociology, politics and epidemiology,the author analyses Governmental and other policies for the prevention of heart disease and looks at the feasisbility of such policies and obstacles barring their adoption....

    Published July 31st 1991 by Routledge

  9. God's Country

    A Case Against Theocracy

    By Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum, Sandy Rapp

    Explore the influence of religion on the privacy rights of U. S. citizens in this controversial new book!Here is a compelling and controversial new book that explores the enormous political influence that some religious groups currently wield. God’s Country focuses particularly on the issue of...

    Published June 23rd 1991 by Routledge

  10. Doctors' Careers

    Aims and Experiences of Medical Graduates

    By James Parkhouse

    A unique record of the aspirations, feelings and experiences of a large group of doctors, during a time of considerable changes in emigration, training for general practice, and the position of women doctors....

    Published April 3rd 1991 by Routledge